As a general rule, a pinball is forever. Once it's released that's it, the table design is done, and while newer tables get regular software update packages the overall setup is carved in stone. The Addams Family pinball on day of release is roughly the same as a refurbished one now, even if it's been updated with a color LED below the backglass and brighter LCD lighting on the field.
A new pinball table will feel faster and slicker than a well-used one, for better or for worse, but that's about all the difference you can hope for. Unless you're Spider-Man or Metallica, of course, in which case your pinball gets a complete remaster.
A Whole Lot More Than a Fresh Coat Of Paint
The Metallica pinball originally came out eleven years ago in 2013, and predictably enough it was incredibly popular. At the time it was made Metallica had thirty years of history to draw from, with hits from the 80s when they lost the heavy metal grammy to Jethro Tull through to the start of the 2010s, and the table released with an impressive fourteen licensed songs.
Granted, the art was oddly cartoonish, feeling...
